Unit 3 Test Review Flashcards

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How were the Populists and Progressives similar in their approaches of reform?

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They wanted to form a new party

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One goal of the Populist Party was to support whom?

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Farmers

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3
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Bimetallism would allow for the exchange of paper currency for:

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Gold or Silver

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Who did the Populist support in the election of 1896?

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William Jennings Bryan (Democraft)

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What did Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DeBois strive for in their social reforms?

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African America Equality - Civil Rights

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Rather than accept corruption and poverty, what did Progressives believe?

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Political & Social Reforms

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What key Social Reform did the Social Gospel call for?

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Settlement houses - churches & social services to help the poor

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What was the Temperance Movement?

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Prohibition

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Who were the “Muckrakers”?

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Investigative journalists - exposed corruption & social issues

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10
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How the Other Half Lives

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Jacob Riis

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History of Standard Oil

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Ida Tarbell

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Shame of the Cities

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Lincoln Steffens

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13
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The Jungle

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Upton Sinclair

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What are Reform Movements based on?

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Response to the pressures of industrialization & urbanization

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Who started the earliest Settlement Houses?

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Jane Addams - Hull House

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What did the Settlement Houses provide to the people?

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Community services to the poor

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What did Ida B. Wells’ research reveal?

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Lynchjng in the south

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18
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List 3 Progressive Era Reforms?

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Social, Political, & Conservation

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What was Booker T. Washington’s advice to African Americans?

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Education + job skills/training to be self reliant

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How did Robert LaFollette use his position to improve American Society?

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Railroad Regulation + Legislative Reform

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What utilities did some Municipal governments take ownership of?

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Gas, water, trash, & transit

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What was the purpose of Progressive Political Reforms?

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Right the wrongs of The Gilded Age

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What is initiative?

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Citizens put a proposed new law on the ballot to be voted in the future

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What is referendum?

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Citizens approve/reject a recently passed law by legislature

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What is recall?
Voters have the power to vote an unsatisfactory elected official out of office
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What role did John Muir play in regards to President Roosevelt’s conservation reform and what organization did he found in 1892?
Sierra Club - Got 148 million acres set aside for conservation
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How did Roosevelt solve the Coal Miners’ Strike of 1902?
Called them to the White House to negotiate
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What did Roosevelt do for the people under his Square Deal Legislation?
Conservation, Consumer Protection, Control of Corporations
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Which Roosevelt policy did Taft continue?
Trustbusting
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What political party nominated Roosevelt for President in 1912?
Progressive Party - Bull Moose
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After becoming President, where did Wilson focus his attention?
Anti-trust, bank reform a reduced tariffs
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While in office, what Legislation did Wilson get passed through Congress, and what did it do?
Clayton Anti-trust Act
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What did the National Park Service do for the country?
Conserve Natural Resources
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What policies were passed by Congress for the Unions and what did they do?
Clayton-Antitrust Act - unions legalized
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What did the women do at the Seneca Falls Convention in New York, 1848?
Organize the women's suffrage movement
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What did Susan B. Anthony attempt in 1872?
voted illegally in an election
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Who led the National American Women’s Suffrage Association (NAWSA)?
Susan B. Anthony & Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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What was the last notable political reform of the Progressive Era?
19th Amendment (Granted Women to vote)
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A. Founded the Women ́s Christian Temperance Union; supported prohibition
Frances Willard
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B. wrote Southern Horrors and supported an anti-lynch law; co-founded the NAACP
Ida B. Wells
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C. believed the way to achieve equality was by focusing on economic goals and waiting for Civil Rights; founded the Tuskegee Institute
Booker T. Washington
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D. wrote The Shame of the Cities exposing the corruption of political machines
Lincoln Steffens
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E. founded of the settlement house movement; known for Hull House in Chicago, IL
Jane Addams
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F. wrote The History of the Standard Oil Company and is responsible for the take down of the Rockefeller oil trust
Ida Tarbell
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G. Suffragist who fought for a constitutional amendment for women to vote
Susan B. Anthony
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H. wrote The Jungle which led to the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act
Upton Sinclair
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I. believed the only way to achieve civil rights was through activism and protest; co-founded the NAACP
W.E.B. Du Bois
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J. wrote How the Other Half Lives which exposed living conditions of the urban poor
Jacob Riis